A take-home message from this analysis is that exercise should have a role in the treatment of erectile dysfunction, said Dr Landon Trost

Among men with an increased cardiovascular risk, coronary heart disease or prostate removal, however, any type of exercise led to improved erectile function scores.

A take-home message from this analysis is that exercise should have a role in the treatment of erectile dysfunction, said Dr Landon Trost, who is head of andrology and male infertility at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The results show that exercise can also be used alone or in combination with erectile dysfunction medications, said Trost, who was not involved with the new analysis.

He told Reuters Health that the average increase in erectile function score would likely be similar to what people see with a medication.